24 Sep
2015
24 Sep
'15
12:04 a.m.
On 9/23/2015 11:22 PM, Eric Smith wrote:
ISO/IEC 9899:1999(E) ?3.6 ?1 - a byte has to hold any
member of the
basic character set
ISO/IEC 9899:1999(E) ?3.7.1 ?1 - a character is a C bit representation
that fits in a byte
ISO/IEC 9899:1999(E) ?5.2.4.2.1 ?1 - the size of a char is CHAR_BIT
bits, which is at least 8
ISO/IEC 9899:1999(E) ?6.2.6.1 ?2-4 - everything other than bitfields
consists of bytes
Bla Bla Bla ...
What happened to seven bit ASCII?
I think the major change in C from the OTHER programing languages
is BYTE addressing. Even Pascal from what I have seen packs characters
in words of some kind. That is main dividing line in how memory
can be accessed. char *ptr++ vs array(foo-1)
0-99 can hold a trimmed character set and 10 digits per int.
5 chars per word sounds right on decimal machine.
Logic operations would be on the digit rather the binary
level. This may not be standard C but I has the early
PDP 11 C feel if they I developed UNIX on decimal machine.
Ben.